GigaMonster, a San Francisco Internet company serving apartment dwellers, plans to start offering gigabit Internet service to apartments, condos and other multi-family buildings in the Denver area starting around April or May.

The catch is that residents can’t just order gigabit Internet for themselves. They’ve got to convince their landlord to first sign a contract with the firm. On its site, GigaMonster offers a convenient form to fill in a landlord or building owner’s contact information. The company’s sales rep will do the rest.

Once available in a building, residents can get up to 1 gigabit-per-second speeds up and down for about $109 per month, according to the going rate in other regions. Speeds start at 30 Mbps for $39 per month. Denver prices won’t be set until late spring and “will reflect competitive prices in the market at the time,” said Bill Dodd, the company’s CEO.

Already, Dodd added, “We have several communities in the contract stage.”

GigaMonster Internet prices, as of Feb. 26, 2016.

GigaMonster is chasing a market that only began getting gigabit service last year. CenturyLink was the first to announce and offer service in limited areas of Denver. By last fall, Comcast said 80 percent of its Colorado customers could now order 2 Gbps.

But not everyone qualifies for GigaMonster service. The company only works with multi-family communities, which include apartments, condos and university housing. This isn’t for single-family homes unless an entire gated community signs on.

Dodd said that GigaMonster’s Denver network is “under construction in one of the top carrier-neutral exchanges in Denver. We control our metro fiber end to end and do not use lit services from telcos.”

That could be a number of companies in the Denver metro area, which is the headquarters to telecoms like Level 3 Communications and Zayo Group.

GigaMonster is currently looking for an operations space in Aurora, though no lease has been signed. The company is conducting interviews and plans to hire about 25 people for its Denver operation this year.

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